How to format your references using the Journal of Computational Physics: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational Physics: X. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

M.D. Schneider, Development. A cardiac nonproliferation treaty, Science 332 (2011) 426–427.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.K. Floyd, J.L. Bowman, Gene regulation: ancient microRNA target sequences in plants, Nature 428 (2004) 485–486.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.P. Dobson, P.G. Meredith, S.A. Boon, Simulation of subduction zone seismicity by dehydration of serpentine, Science 298 (2002) 1407–1410.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Bellafiore, F. Barneche, G. Peltier, J.-D. Rochaix, State transitions and light adaptation require chloroplast thylakoid protein kinase STN7, Nature 433 (2005) 892–895.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

M. Foote, J. Hillier, K. Mitchell-Wallace, M. Jones, Natural catastrophe risk management and modelling, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M. Bramer, M. Petridis, eds., Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIX: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XX Proceedings of AI-2012, The Thirty-second SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Li, R. Klette, Partitioning a Polygon or the Plane, in: R. Klette (Ed.), Euclidean Shortest Paths: Exact or Approximate Algorithms, Springer, London, 2011: pp. 127–169.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Computational Physics: X.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, How Many Calories Does Having Sex Really Burn?, IFLScience (2016).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, State Department: Problems in the Diplomatic Courier System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Dunbar, Sideshow: An alluring dichotomy of illusion and humanity, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

N. Kulish, N. Clark, Warning Signs in the Mind of a Pilot Determined to Die, New York Times (2015) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computational Physics: X
ISSN (print)	2590-0552
Scope